Michael Bargeron Was A Drink Or Two Past Drunk

Filed under: Alcohol-related stupidity, Child Abuse, Crime

Palm Bay, FL - A 2-year-old child is recovering from severe burns to his hands, legs, stomach, and buttocks because he was surrounded by idiots. The child’s father, Michael Bargeron, was getting his drunk on at a New Year’s Eve party and began wrestling with the child near an open fire pit. The highly intoxicated Michael had been warned, repeatedly, by other party-goers to back away from the fire because the child was in danger of getting burned. Dismissing their concerns, Michael continued with the horseplay. Well, kiddo fell into the fire.

Witnesses stated that Michael failed to immediately pull the child from the fire. (Doesn’t sound like the witnesses were much help in the situation, either). The child’s mother pulled him from the flames and high-tailed it to the hospital. About 20 minutes later, Michael was on the phone with 911 – he wanted to know if the dispatcher had heard any reports of a nearly 3-year-old child being burned.

Michael told the dispatcher his son had fallen into a fire and the boy’s mother took him to the hospital, but he didn’t know where his son was or where the incident occurred. When the dispatcher told him to “sober up” and figure out what was going on with his child, Michael responded with, “Are you serious? I can’t sober up.”

He was still sleeping it off when the cops showed up to arrest him later that day. Michael Bargeron, 24, is being held on $50,000 bond and charged with aggravated child abuse. Turns out the party was being held at the home of two registered sexual predators. They are now being investigated for possible violation of their probation because of contact with young children.

I’m sure this was a tragic accident, and I’m sure that once he sobered up he felt like a Grade A piece of shit, but it saddens me that such a lesson had to be learned at the kiddo’s expense.

Source | 911 recording

SOURCE:   http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/01/06/michael-bargeron-was-a-drink-or-two-past-drunk/#more-9035